Pauline Kael Quotes
Alienation is the most common state of the knowledgeable movie audience, and though it has the peculiar rewards of low connoisseurship, a miser’s delight in small favors, we long to be surprised out of it - not to suspension of disbelief nor to a Brechtian kind of alienation, but to pleasure, something a man can call good without self-disgust.
Pauline Kael
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
Rachel Kushner
'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
Kate Brown
People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
Dane Cook
You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
Eddie Perez
I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
Damon Lindelof
With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
Yishan Wong
Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
Viggo Mortensen
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
Vikram Chatwal
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
Harold Washington
Ultimately love is everything.
M. Scott Peck
I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.
Halima Aden
I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.
George Strait
We create monsters and then we can't control them.
Joel Coen
I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
Tatyana Tolstaya
As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.
Dwayne Johnson
It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
Alan Cumming
Alienation is the most common state of the knowledgeable movie audience, and though it has the peculiar rewards of low connoisseurship, a miser’s delight in small favors, we long to be surprised out of it - not to suspension of disbelief nor to a Brechtian kind of alienation, but to pleasure, something a man can call good without self-disgust.
Pauline Kael